CVE-2016-2841

medium

Published 2016-06-16 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

6.0

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

Description

The ne2000_receive function in the NE2000 NIC emulation support (hw/net/ne2000.c) in QEMU before 2.5.1 allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via crafted values for the PSTART and PSTOP registers, involving ring buffer control.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

60%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
ubuntu	12.04	affected
ubuntu	14.04	affected
ubuntu	15.10	affected
ubuntu	16.04	affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1:2.6+dfsg-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1:2.6+dfsg-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1:2.6+dfsg-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1:2.6+dfsg-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1:2.6+dfsg-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
qemu	qemu	`{"endIncluding":"2.5.0"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.